Welcome to my July 2019 student loan debt progress! If you are new here, every month, I post the progress I’ve made on paying off my student loans. I’ve done this since I first started paying down my loans in July 2017 and it has been so worth it. I do this to hold myself accountable and to share my debt progress with others who are also facing debt payments of their own. Debt paid this month: $6,190.89 Debt remaining:…
Welcome to my June 2019 student loan debt progress! If you are new here, every month, I post the progress I’ve made on paying off my student loans. I’ve done this since I first started paying down my loans in July 2017 and it has been so worth it. I do this to hold myself accountable and to share my debt progress with others who are also facing debt payments of their own. Debt paid this month: $2,650.80 Debt remaining:…
I just had an epiphany. Here’s how it began: After I finished rounding up my May budget and spending, I proceeded to update my Debt Progress page and realized that I only made a measly 1% change in my debt progress from the previous month. Upon taking a closer look, I realized I’ve only lowered my student loans by $7,500 since the start of 2019! I already had to change my goal from fully paying off all my student loans…
Welcome to my May 2019 student loan debt progress! If you are new here, every month, I post the progress I’ve made on paying off my student loans. I’ve done this since I first started paying down my loans in July 2017 and it has been so worth it. I do this to hold myself accountable and to share my debt progress with others who are also facing debt payments of their own. Debt paid this month: $2,191 Debt remaining:…
Welcome to my April 2019 student loan debt progress! If you are new here, every month, I post the progress I’ve made on paying off my student loans. I’ve done this since I first started paying down my loans in July 2017 and it has been so worth it. I do this to hold myself accountable and to share my debt progress with others who are also facing debt payments of their own. Debt paid this month: $2,191 Debt remaining:…
Welcome to my February 2019 student loan debt progress! If you are new here, every month, I post the progress I’ve made on paying off my student loans. I’ve done this since I first started paying down my loans in July 2017 and it has been so worth it. I do this to hold myself accountable and to share my debt progress with others who are also facing debt payments of their own. Debt paid this month: $2,000 Debt remaining:…
Welcome to my January 2019 student loan debt progress, the first of 2019! If you are new here, every month, I post the progress I’ve made on paying off my student loans. I’ve done this since I first started paying down my loans in July 2017 and it has been so worth it. I do this to hold myself accountable and to share my debt progress with others who are also facing debt payments of their own. Debt paid this…
I cannot believe how fast 2018 flew by. As I look back on my 2018, I figured why not document the highlights. It’ll be great to look back on this years later to read a quick recap of my personal, financial, and work life in 2018. Before I begin, I like to start by looking back at the goals I made at the beginning of 2018. I started 2018 with $129,149 in student loan debt and in January wrote a list…
If you know what Nelnet is, most likely Nelnet has been assigned to you as your student loan servicer. Maybe you are still in college, getting your first student loan disbursement or maybe you are already well on your way into paying down your student loans. Either way, you’ve come to the right place. Nelnet has served as my student loan servicer since 2010. I started making regular payments in 2017 so I have roughly 8 years of experience with…
Welcome to my November 2018 student loan debt progress! If you are new here, every month, I post the progress I’ve made on paying off my student loans. I do this to hold myself accountable and to share my debt progress with others who are also facing debt payments of their own. Debt paid this month: $1,500 Debt remaining: $92,796 I also house every month’s debt progress from the very beginning here if you want to check out the progress so far. November was…